Gare du Nid d'Aigle (French: ''Eagle's Nest Station'') is the terminus of the Tramway du Mont Blanc (TMB) from

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Saint-Gervais-les-Bains () is a Communes of France, commune in the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region, southeastern France. The village is best known for tourism and has been a po ...

on the slopes of the

Mont Blanc Mont Blanc (, ) is a mountain in the Alps, rising above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the second-most prominent mountain in Europe (after Mount E ...

. This station welcomes mountaineers as well as hikers at 2,362 m altitude below the

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of Bionnassay. During the winter months the tram only stops at the lower ''Bellevue'' station, because of the avalanche risks. A trip by tram from ''Le Fayet'' to this terminus lasts about three quarters of an hour and the panorama is remarkable. Here starts the ''modern normal route on the French side'' to the summit of Mont Blanc via the nearby refuge Nid d'Aigle, the

Refuge de Tête Rousse Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning: Safety * Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire * Bunker A bunker is a defensive military fortific ...

and the

Goûter Refuge Merienda is a light meal in southern Europe, particularly Spain (''merenda'' in Galician, ''berenar'' in Catalan), Portugal (''lanche'' or ''merenda'') and Italy (''merenda''), whence the word spread to Serbo-Croatian in, according to dictiona ...

. The tramway terminus is also the finish location of the mountain run ''Montée du Nid d’Aigle'', yearly in the month of July since 1986. The first building of the station dated from 1933 and was destroyed by a fire in 2002.

External links

Tramway du Mont Blanc website
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